Joan Carroll Cruz

Lay Saints (eBook, ePUB)

Martyrs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Lay Saints: Martyrs, Joan Carroll Cruz guides you through the lives of seventy-three lay men and women who achieved the heights of sanctity. These inspiring biographies present martyrs who displayed extraordinary fortitude in holding fast to their faith in the midst of great persecution. Find a role model from among these saints as Joan Carroll Cruz explores: their acts of fortitude that you can imitate the burning love for God displayed by the martyrs stories of heroism, self-denial, and trust in God how martyrdom and suffering, heroically endured, en- courages the faith of othersIn this volume are people from all walks of life and time periods who lovingly embraced the opportunity to die for their refusal to renounce the True Faith. While many people may never get the chance to forfeit their lives for Christ in so dramatic a fashion, these saints should serve as a guiding light in the endurance of the small sacrifices and persecutions of everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TAN Books
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780895558381
• Artikelnr.: 48394217

Autorenporträt

Joan Carroll Cruz is a native of New Orleans and is the educational product of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She attended grade school, high school and college under their tutelage. Mrs. Cruz has been a tertiary in the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order (Third Order) since 1968; for eight years she served as Mistress of Formation (Novice Mistress). For her non-fiction books, Joan Carroll Cruz depended heavily on information received from foreign shrines, churches, convents and monasteries. Her books include The Incorruptibles, published in 1977; Desires of Thy Heart, a strongly Catholic-themed novel, also in 1977; Relics, published in 1983; Eucharistic Miracles in 1987; Secular Saints in 1989; Prayers and Heavenly Promises in 1990; Miraculous Images of Our Lady in 1993; Miraculous Images of Our Lord in 1995; Mysteries, Marvels, Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints in 1997; Angels & Devils in 1999; and Saints for the Sick in 2010.